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Bloody Bones is a bogeyman figure in English and North American folklore whose first written appearance is approximately 1548. As with all bogeymen the figure has been used to frighten children into proper deportment. The character is sometimes called Rawhead, Tommy Rawhead, or Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones (with or without the hyphens).
Another version claims that he is an evil spirit attracted by violence and carnage. The Bloody Bones popular in West Virginian folklore, however, is a creature that inhabits the space under the stairs of a home and eats disobedient or misbehaving children. [8] A tale of a child's encounter with Bloody Bones was recorded by Ninevah Jackson Willis.
A mother questions her son about the blood on his "sword" (most likely a hunting knife, given the era when the story is occurring). He avoids her interrogation at first, claiming that it is his hawk or his horse (or some other kind of animal depending on the variation of the song), but finally admits that it is his brother, or his father, whom he has killed.
More Bones: Scary Stories From Around The World is a 2008 book of children's short stories from around the world. The stories were selected and retold by Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz, with illustrations by E.M. Gist. It has been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. [1]
Brinegar was born in 1917 in Tucumcari in eastern New Mexico, the first child of Louise (née McElroy) and Paul A. Brinegar, Sr., who was a farmer. [2] [3] [4] His family relocated several times during his childhood, first moving to Alamogordo, then to Las Cruces, and finally to Santa Fe. [5]
"Rawhead Rex", a short story in Volume Three of Clive Barker's Books of Blood Rawhead Rex (film) , a 1986 horror film adapted from the story Topics referred to by the same term
«A Myth of Mildridge; a story anent a Witless Wight's Adventures with the Mildridge Fairies in ye Bishoprick of Durham; now more than two centuries ago.» A Broadside of three columns, August 1849. Fifty copies. III. «The Noble Nevills.» A notice of their Monuments in Staindrop Church, co. Durham. A Broadside of two pages. Oct. 1849. Fifty ...
The Rawhide Kid (real name: Johnny Bart, originally given as Johnny Clay) is a fictional Old West cowboy appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A heroic gunfighter of the 19th-century American West who was unjustly wanted as an outlaw, he is one of Marvel's most prolific Western characters.